Helping Singers Navigate their Midlife Hormonal Changes and Beyond
Currently offering private 1:1 sessions on-line
Are you a singer or singing teacher navigating baffling changes to your voice, body and psyche from midlife hormonal transitions? Let me be part of your support system to recalibrate, reimagine, renew and reemerge.
I am the co-author of the Amazon best-seller “Singing Through Change: Women’s Voices in Midlife, Menopause and Beyond,” with Nancy Bos and JoAnne Bozeman
Are you a singer diagnosed with a vocal fold injury or pathology, recovering from surgery or experiencing singing challenges even after a professional course of treatment? I’m a vetted non-clinical singing voice specialist who can work with your medical team or work with vocal rehabilitative measures at any point in your healing.
Are you a recovering academic, private studio vocal pedagogue, or voice teacher desiring more joy and a deeper embodied understanding of your OWN singing? We can make the process of a new disciplined, wild joy fit into your busy life!
This includes almost every form of classical singing, world music singing, musical theater, Americana, folk or jazz singing.
Working together, we will
Adapt for you evidence-based Adult-Learning Strategies, Somatic Education, Movement and Mindfulness
Explore the myo-fascial relationships of the five diaphragms, functional vocal pedagogy, sports’ science principles, voice therapies and hooking into rhythmic impulse for all Singing.
Work from my honed intuition and somatic perceptions to inform all evidence-based work.
Draw from many styles, genres and forms of music to develop unencumbered expression authentic to you!
“I highly recommend Cate for all advanced singers and voice teachers, particularly those who are having difficulties with singing for any reason. She’s a visionary pedagogue who is profoundly perceptive and grounded. AND she is well-informed and practical, working in a functional and therapeutic manner. Cate’s musical soul enables her to work authentically in many genres and infuses all of her holistic work. I’m relieved and grateful to have found a life-long mentor in her.”
“I came across Cate’s blog article “Saliva and Singing,” and began working with her to prepare for my Broadway debut in a new musical written by Chris Thiele of The Punch Brothers. I am a hip-hop, Latino, electronica pop singer/recording artist and needed be able to sustain a strenuous live musical stage show feature of a very high lyrical range. Sad to say that project was abandoned due to the pandemic, but my lessons with Cate showed me different parts of myself which I carry with me today.”
I, Cate, understand all Voice Work, and all the Arts, as life-long practices for individual and community healing
Here are my experiences working with evidence-based functional singing and performance coaching for voice industry professionals, college voice professors, world-music touring singers, singers on Broadway, in opera and oratorio, jazz venues, Grammy award-winners, professional child actors, touring companies, adult and children choristers, committed adult amateur singers, teenagers and community music organizations.
Referrals for work as a singing voice rehabilitation specialist come from Johns Hopkins Speech-Language Pathologists, voice experts and self-referrals throughout the US, Canada, UK and Australia.
A 25 year+ background as a reviewed singer brought me much joy and many life-affirming & interesting opportunities.
Work with Me
Private Sessions in Singing, Voice Habilitation and Rehabilitation
Blog
Writings on practical vocal pedagogy, practical vocal re-habilitation, and singing voice changes
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What singers say
“As a career jazz and R & B singer, I don’t trust my voice to just anyone. I worked with Cate during 3 years of peri-menopausal voice and life challenges. She helped me navigate the storm and come out the other side.”
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“Cate is a highly qualified vocal expert & healer. Her back-ground of high-level classical singing, long history of developing singers of all genres of music and her own extensive recovery from physical and emotional trauma uniquely informs her work with professional singers, performers upping their skills and those recovering from diagnosis of vocal fold injury.
Her lifetime of investigation into our mind/body/heart knowledge has honed her wise sensibility and perception, lacking in the profession of teaching singing until recently. Her compassion for, and commitment to, the highest good of each of her students, and to the profession at large, is exemplary. Her willingness to share what she understands is a gift to all!”